SageMaker Partners With Innaphase Corporation to

Provide Enterprise Information Portals (EIP) to 800Pharmaceutical Customers FAIRFIELD, Conn. (PROTEXT) - Partnership brings a tailored EIPto the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors SageMaker, Inc., the global provider of Enterprise InformationPortals (EIP), today announced a partnership with InnaphaseCorporation, the market leading provider of software forscientific teams developing new drugs in the pharmaceuticalsector. This partnership is a co-marketing/co-development deal toprovide the first EIP designed specifically for thepharmaceuticals industry. It will cater to the specialist needsof pharmaceutical & biotechnology companies, contract researchorganizations (CRO), universities, hospitals, and regulatoryagencies worldwide. To be launched in September, the EIP willoffer web-based information sharing and reporting of internal &external research and market information to over 800pharmaceutical customers of Innaphase in 45 countries. This partnership brings together two market leading products:SageWave, SageMaker's EIP, and Kinetica 2000, Innaphase'ssophisticated pharmacological analysis and simulation tools. Thecombined product will allow general knowledge workers topersonalize and shape their day-to-day information environment,permit more efficient access to relevant corporate informationand, uniquely for scientists, imbed cutting-edge components formanaging the process of pharmaceutical research and development. Under the agreement, both companies will design and developintegrated Java 2 components, which will co-operate seamlessly ina single, highly functional portal for animal and humanpharmacology. It will harmonize information from worldwidegovernment pharmaceutical sites including the FDA, pharmaceuticalpublications & journals, research, industry data, financialinformation (including share prices), databases, journals andreal-time news. End-users will have access to the best EIPtechnology in the field along with industry specific content tocomplement and build upon strong research capabilities. "Innaphase made a decision to move its applications to a Web-enabled framework environment prior to the launch of its newproduct Kinetica 2000. We did some serious feasibility studiesand concluded that the best forum was an EIP environment.SageMaker was significantly more advanced than its competition.Without question, SageWave came out as the best EIP to meet bothInnaphase's and its customers' needs. Together we know we canreach more customers as well as provide them with high valuecontent and software tools. We're a true partnership and ourplans include the ongoing co-development of software for thepharmaceutical and healthcare markets -- a sector worth manymillions of dollars," said Peter J.D. Ryan, President & CEO ofInnaphase Corporation. "We're pleased to be working with Innaphase to launch thefirst business- class EIP for the pharmaceutical market. Thecombination of Innaphase's current and future, cutting-edgeanalysis tools and SageMaker's expertise in the EIP market willcreate an unparalleled opportunity for statistical, actionable,and competitive information to anyone in the pharmaceutical andhealthcare market," said Ron Bienvenu, President & CEO ofSageMaker. "First generation corporate portals - those that offeryou basic Intranet link management, browser-based applicationlaunchers, or simple external connections to newspaper web sites- are becoming obsolescent at Internet speed. They lack industry-related, business-class applications and integrated informationsources, together with the capability for real-time news. Thesecomponents - all core features of SageWave - are indispensablefor the EIP of the future. Having clearly demonstrated success ina number of key verticals, our strategy is to partner with world-leading software and information providers possessing deepindustry expertise and world class products in new verticals. Inpharmaceuticals, Innaphase is recognized as the emerging leaderon both counts, so we're immensely pleased to be announcing thispartnership." Innaphase's Kinetica 2000 is a powerful PKPD automation andinformation server offering extensive analytical and reportingcapabilities for research and development in the pharmaceuticalmarket. It allows customers to manage information from manydifferent databases, using it to form predictions aboutpharmaceutical research. "The September release marks the release of the firstapplication in a line of integrated new products and technologiesfor the management and analysis of early drug development datawithin pharmaceutical companies. Our partnership with SageMakerwill provide our customers with a powerful portal for themanagement and analysis of their enterprise information assets,"said Peter J.D. Ryan, President & CEO of Innaphase Corporation. About Innaphase Innaphase Corporation has been offering software solutions forclinical database management and statistical analysis since 1986.The company's clients include more than 800 pharmaceutical &biotechnology companies, contract research organizations,universities, hospitals, and regulatory agencies, in more than 45different countries. In the race to reduce the time and cost fordrug development, Innaphase's fully integrated and scalable setof database technologies, application tools and professionalservices are being selected to streamline the drug developmentprocess, therefore saving pharmaceutical companies millions ofdollars while providing them vital competitive edge. With officesin the United States, France and England, Innaphase is fastbecoming the industry standard in software applications for pre-clinical and clinical pharmacology. More information is available on the Innaphase Website:http://www.Innaphase.com About SageMaker SageMaker Inc., the market leading and only global EnterpriseInformation Portal (EIP) vendor, provides the tools and solutionsto turn companies' information assets into actionable knowledge.SageMaker currently supports the information needs of 450 bluechip customers and 300 partner companies in the US, Europe, Asia,Latin America and Africa. SageWave, a full service solution forbusiness information, is the only EIP that carries content fromthe world's established information providers and publications,and combines it with a company's own internal content (e.g.databases, research, e-mail, and unstructured documents).SageWave is available either as an outsourced Internet service oras a deployed publish/subscribe architecture, using Java/XML,depending on customer need and budget. Current verticalindustries, benefiting from the richness of its content andfunctionality, include the oil & gas, power & utilities,chemical, telecom, pharmaceutical, insurance and media sectors,with new sectors coming on board every month. Using SageWave,more than 250,000 subscribers are making better decisions fasterin a more productive browser-based environment. More information is available on the SageMaker Website:http://www.sagemaker.com ots Original Text Service: SageMaker,Inc. 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